TORTUOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Puzzling complexity

Synonyms:

complicatedness; complication; knottiness; tortuousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("tortuousness" is a kind of...):

complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)

Derivation:

tortuous (not straightforward)

tortuous (highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious)

Meaning:

A tortuous and twisted shape or position

Example:

the acrobat performed incredible contortions

Synonyms:

contortion; crookedness; torsion; tortuosity; tortuousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("tortuousness" is a kind of...):

distorted shape; distortion (a shape resulting from distortion)

Derivation:

tortuous (marked by repeated turns and bends)